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Instructional Framework: Grade 7

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Step Up

Selections feature inspiring people who have taken a stand to make the world a better place.

Tech Effects

Selections examine how new technology is changing the way we communicate, work, learn, and have fun.

Mysteries

Selections explore mystery as a genre and some of the world's most perplexing and unsolved mysteries.

FearsandPhobias

Selections examine the nature of fear and give accounts of people facing and overcoming their fears.

Send a Message

Selections reflect the various methods we use to get our message across--from comics and zines to text messages, speeches, and blogs.

Make an Impression

Selections focus on the things that make an impression on us and how we make an impression on others.

Oral Language

Comprehension Strategies

·Listen effectively using strategies such as making connections, questioning, and summarizing

Interactive Strategies

·Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate speaking behaviour to suit purpose and audience, for example by asking questions and paraphrasing

Making Inferences

·Develop interpretations of oral texts using stated and implied ideas

Demonstrating Understanding

·Demonstrate understanding of oral texts by outlining the main ideas

Extending Understanding

·Connect, compare, and contrast ideas in texts to own knowledge and experiences

Appropriate Language/Vocal Skills and Strategies

·Use inclusive language and a range of vocal effects to communicate meaning

Reading

Making Connections

·Question to make personal, textual, and world connections

Questioning

·Ask questions of texts to increase understanding

Making Inferences

·Question and predict to make inferences

Summarizing

·Identify main ideas, ask questions, and observe text features to summarize texts

Synthesizing

·Summarize and ask questions to synthesize information from different texts